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General Ursus
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When not busy entering the Forbidden Zone, randomly talking about cricket, AFL (Richmond), soccer (Arsenal) and cinema amongst other things.
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Haha, Australia will finish this tonight at this rate.

#cricket #Ashes #AusvEng
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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After this, Head has to be opener for the rest of the series. Totally destroyed England's self-belief fir the rest of the summer I reckon.

#Ashes #cricket #AusvEng
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Haha, Australia will finish this tonight at this rate.

#cricket #Ashes #AusvEng
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Good counter-attacking move by Australia to have Head opening up the batting.

#cricket #Ashes #AusvEng
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Australia trying to buy a wicket here, but the price is too high in such a low-scoring match.

#cricket #Ashes #AusvEng
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Brett Lee says it feels like a T20 match; makes sense as a batting side not reaching 50 after 20 overs happens so often in BBL matches.

#AusvEng #Ashes #cricket
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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When was the last time Australia failed to score a run in opening 4 overs of a Test innings?

#cricket #Ashes #AusvInd
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Bazball has had twits like Brayshaw drooling at big shots they play, but it's limitations have been shown full on this shamble of an innings.

#Ashes #cricket #AusvEng
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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If Australia lose I'm blaming it on this.
sirswampthing.bsky.social Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 5d
AUS Test sides with 5 players that have previously played Sheffield Shield for South Australia
1894 v ENG - Syd
Joe Darling
George Giffen
Ernie Jones
John Lyons
John Reedman

2025 v ENG - Perth
Alex Carey
Brendan Doggett
Travis Head
Nathan Lyon
Jake Weatherald

#AUSvENG
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Period since Starc was rested has shown how much Oz are missing Cummins & Hazlewood.

#Ashes #cricket #AusvEng
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Terrible review by Duckett; even Shane Watson wouldn't have reviewed that.

#cricket #AusvEng #Ashes
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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honestly if 3 ghosts visited me to show me my past, present & future i’d probably just be on my phone the whole time
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Several years ago went to Madame Tussauds in Sydney and saw a model of Glenn McGrath whose face looked almost more like Stan Laurel.

#cricket
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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As a kid loved the 1967 comedy film "Who's Minding the Mint?".

Watched it a few years back and didn't hold up as well as expected... but the Lalo Schifrin theme tune is still an awesome listen:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMn1...
Lalo Schifrin - Who's Minding the Mint Opening Titles
YouTube video by Easy Library
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The footy admin doing their usual drip-feed fixture to get headlines may have worked a decade ago, but now seems played out and almost descending into self-parody.

#afl
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Don't mind the wildcard concept except I would cut it in half and have 8 v 9 as the sole wildcard match.

If it was just 8 v 9 it would ensure you have to finish in the top half of the comp to be in it.

#afl
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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A Jacko in the box at the 1991 Myer Christmas Parade
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Mini-profile of Wayne Phillips shown during the 85/86 Test series versus NZ.

#cricket
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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What ever happened to Nelly Yoa
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳
The Age Opinion I wrote a book and no one read it. It's time to face up to what we have lost Chip Le Grand October 30, 2024
October 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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#RIP Prunella Scales, 93.
Truly amazing as Sybil in 'Fawlty Towers.'
Her laugh “always reminds me of somebody machine-gunning a seal," Basil says in the show.
She modeled her Sybil after a lady she met as a child at a seaside hotel.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/p...
Prunella Scales, Actress in ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 93
The petite TV veteran also starred on 'Marriage Lines,' 'Mapp & Lucia,' and 'After Henry' and traveled with her late husband on 'Great Canal Journeys.'
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Cindy the Netherlands
samitsarkar.bsky.social Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · Oct 27
oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD

(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)
a screenshot of two X posts by Chris Lesinski (@lesinski) the first, posted at 7:14 PM EDT on Oct. 25, 2025, says: Quite an epic AI typo in The Journal today. The Paramount exec is named Cindy Holland and they wrote “Cindy the Netherlands” The post also includes a photo of the print newspaper featuring the passage in question. The second X post, a threaded reply from @lesinski, was posted 17 hours ago, and says: Spelling this out a little more: 1) yes, this is real, WSJ Sat/Sun edition this weekend 2) they probably do some form of AI copy editing and the style guide says “we don’t use the informal ‘Holland,’ instead use ‘the Netherlands’”… … it’s just that this is a very obvious exception a human should have caught.
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Just learnt my decades-long assumption that the same person sang 'Bette Davis Eyes' and the 'Up Where We Belong' duet with Joe Cocker was wrong.

Apologies to Kim Carnes and Jennifer Warnes!
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM